Hi guys. Thank you for watching this video😊. I'm really proud of this one. I just want to clarify something real quick. This video is not a political take nor is it in anyway trying to over simplify the tragedies that occurred in Zimbabwe. Real people were and are affected every day by what happened. I want to provide a starting point for awareness regarding Zimbabwe. Particularly for the South African who's viewing Zimbabwe through the tinted lens of SA media. I got a lot of help from real Zimbabwean people, from uber drivers, to my former teachers and all the friends in between. Thank you guys🙏🏾
Thank you for this video. Your explanation is crystal clear and it seems you guys speak so well. I used to think that Mugabe may have lived in the west because of his English. Zimbabwe was sabotaged by the west which will never tolerate a true African leader. They want peace in their territories but war everywhere else. The wickedness is palpable.
If there's one thing I've learned... paper money is fake, we've all been bluffed by the super super super wealthy. They control us like puppets! Look what the Bible says about money and the rich. P.S. they enslaved us all. While they brainwash us with political slavery, the "swines" captured us in capital prison, clever
As a Zimbabwean who is currently living in Zimbabwe as it is now....thank you. Your understanding of the way the economy is commendable. We pray that some day our country will become better and rejoin the rest of the world in development.
@@ashleysimthi4852 Dependence on another country's currency is a double edged sword i think. We need a working economic recovery plan beyond printing money and relying on foreign currency. Rejuvenation of local industry would help tremendously. But at this point, it's probably not going to happen anytime soon.
Great video brother! Well researched and articulated. Loved the ending bit. I may add, the reason why Mugabe broke the Lancaster House agreement of compensating white farmers was because UK had itself broke the agreement first. Included in the agreement was that UK would pay money to the Zimbabwean government (reparation) to be used for development and to compensate those whose farms would be taken. When this did not happen pressure from war veterans and the surgency of a strong opposition (MDC at the time) forced and frustrated Mugabe into land grab to regain some popularity.
Thanks for the insight. There is a lot of lessons in the Zim story for other SADC countries. I think that one of the challenges we have is that political views, misinformation, indoctrination, etc. sometimes stop us from seeing, or even admitting some valuable truths. If we do not admit these truths we will continue to make these mistakes and we will continue to blame others.
Also, you end with the idee that we should not judge Zimmies working in neighborings countries harsh and try to send them back. But, should one not lei in the bed you made? Why are they not back in their own country fixing the problems. Instead, they are blaming other, not admitting their failure and now they are doing the same in other countries. They took the farms of the farmers, now they take the jobs of others. They now have the land they wanted. Should they not stay and work it? Or, if not, should they not give the farms back to the farmers who had it. I would like to have more insight and understanding into this in a next video. Thanks for this one.
The video was great until the 11:00 minute mark where you skipped the part between 2010 and 2015 where you could literally withdraw any USD amount you wanted from the bank/ATM without any queue. I worked in Zimbabwe during that period. It was after the GNU that government started overspending leading to the USD shortage which became symptomatic in 2016.
Ohhh man. What a beautiful piece of information. I definitely missed that in my prep. I'll read on it and include it in my next video on currencies. Thank you for this bro 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I just visited Vic Falls from the US last week. Zimbabwe is such a beautiful country with beautiful people. I had an idea of what happened but lacked details. Thank you for explaining. I hope someday Zimbabwe can rise up and be great again. Sending love from the USA/New Jersey ❤
Such a sad situation for Zimbabwe, I have two Zimbabweans who used to rent at my place here in Botswana but later on I stopped collecting money from them as they became part of my family, I must say most of them are good people, who hate crime, however there are those who can be hired to kill just for few bucks, I went to Bulawayo with one of them and was treated like a king, one day Zimbabwe will regain her glory, there are thousands of Zimbabweans here in Botswana from farms to mechanics and welding, some are now citizens
Thank you Precious. Something Definitely needs to be done with the sanctions. But I read that the government had been working to get back into the global community so hopefully that happens soon. The discovery of oil should be a huge positive aswell😊
@@KaraboMoremi It's better to circumvent than to kowtow to the West. Zimbabwe should mark out an entirely different trading route and methodology especially now that a multipolar world is emerging. It must align itself with those who refuse to be bullied and those who reject lawless sanctions.
@@KaraboMoremioil itself doesn't matter, if you are just going to abandon civic governance. Yea you might get Chinese or us help to extract it to meaningful revenue and the gov just turns around steals those assets, then who is going to trust you?
Good video. The most frustrating aspect of this sad story for the majority of Zimbabweans is the complicity of the ANC, particularly during the Mbeki administration with his so called silent diplomacy rubbish. The SA government, through their UN mission in the USA always protected the corrupt and murderous zanupf regime from the justified condemnation by the international community. I guess SA is happy to have a ready market for its products in Zimbabwe. By the way, there is a zanupf branch in SA , what for, you can make a guess!!!
Sa government has never signed agreement to be guardian of other governments. SA s products in Zim is your choice. Namibia almost 90 % of from SA but they didn t collapse and Botswana , Lesotho and Eswatini.
A very informative piece on the Zimbabwe situation i must say, it takes one to look deep into the country to understand what really went wrong. Thanks for putting this out. 🇿🇼
Crazy how fast a country can spiral down, when you opened about those ludicrous interest rates, basically says nobody wants your currency. Idi Amin brought his country down similarly.
Great video as always. Would be interested to know your take on what Zimbabwe should do going forward. Maybe an interesting video concept would be to take a look at some successful developing economies and analyze what is being done to help them industriliaze.
I actually had a whole section on that at the end of the video but cut it due to time. I wasn't sure y'all would want a long video😅. But it involves removing the sanctions, improving production so they can export more and resolving the political sphere. A lot of Zimbabwean business people are going back to Zim so things are definitely going to get better soon🔥🔥🔥
Could somebody please explain the redenomination of the currency 🤔, how exactly does it work? Does a country just say "okay now there's a new currency and its worth this much"?
Bet you didn't know the man was crowned a British knight right after independence. He was their main man after war tasked to protecting white interests just like Mandela.
Land reform was necessary but it was enacted in ways that are purely political and not within the national interest. This could have been handled incrementally but the president needing a popularity boost before elections
I liked your eloquence, and almost faultless articulation of our Zimbabwean story. For a moment i thought you are a Zimbabwean who actually experienced the story you are telling. The big lesson from the Zim story is 'How not to do the right thing'. We had to take what's ours, but we were a lot messy and we stepped on some toes.
😅nah I'm a South African from Limpopo so I guess that's the closest one can get to being in Zim. You're right, out of that situation have come a lot of lessons. Especially for other African countries
Wow... this is a beautiful UA-cam channel, glad Africans r making such informative vids on Africa Please make vids covering all African nations n issues. Great content n edits
There are lots of inaccuracies. When redenomination happened in 2008, 10 zeros were removed and the rate was 1:10 with the USD and not 1700 that you mentioned. It was almost 1:1with the ZAR. That was on 1 August 2008. Also not true that the land became worthless. It’s debatable whether taking land can be done any other way in Africa. Some believe it’s impossible to redistribute it any other way
If we don't laugh, we'll cry. 😭😭💀💀 The state of our country is a bit depressing when you actually sit down and think about it. Like loadshedding is literally part of our life now?! We celebrate having stage 2 instead of 6😭😭
@@KaraboMoremi my bad I missed it I know fuel coupons and visas to go to SA were the main things plus a lot of people were staying with people they knew because of the demolitions I hope it gets better its beautiful place SA too Capetown was fun Peritoria good times.😁👍
@@KaraboMoremi you're welcome💯. I think this content is way too underrated . If it can have a bit of reach around you'll see how crazy it'll fly , the reason why that's true is that the knowledge, proper edition and constructive content are already here, maybe you can argue with some other resources but other than that it's much proper
Thank you mate for your take. I suppose you also left out: i. The Black Friday in November 1997, when the Zimdollar crashed to the US$ following the war veterans gratuities payment plan ii. The DRC war intervention and its effects. However, the critical question to me is post-colonization governments' unenviable task to balance or bring resources and infrastructure to the previously marginalised groups and continue development at the same time on the same budgets. Zimbabwe's curse was over the methodology. But the irony of it all, is why is there more trouble in paradise????
Very good question "Why is there more trouble in paradise?" Like you said, perhaps it's because of the constraints that come with trying to give access to previously marginalized people and maintaining development at the same pace. Not that it's not achievable, but some methodologies don't work. And we see an example in this case. IT ALMOST WORKED THOUGH, and one day Zimbabwe could rise again. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 On the other hand, I did read about the DRC war intervention. But I couldn't link it directly to the hyperinflation so I left it out.
Thank you. I think the DRC intervention's contribution was depleting the foreign currency reserves further. War by its nature requires huge budgets, which the government could not afford, especially that it spanned a couple of years. To me, the Zimbabwean model is working to the extent one would want to understand it as an incubator of new farmers in generations to come. Current successful commercial farmers, mostly, have their grandpas to thank, who only started by owning the land without any farming skills of note. I am tempted to compare the sustainabilities of the various systems for Southern African countries' citizens and argue that in so far as statal dependencies is concerned, the Zimbabwean system has brought about citizens who can depend on themselves in so far as food production is concerned! And because the Maslow low order needs are met at individual household level, somehow, to an extent, that has given them relative social politico-stability.
I remember in 1999 Mama gave me Z$1 to go and buy bread.Getting @ the tuckshop the price increased to $1.50.i went back home got $2 & came back to the tuckshop...there and then the price increased to $2.I went back home to ask if I can buy bread @$2 ...Mom approved ,I went back and boom the price increased to $2.50- I went back home Mom picks that Red old school telephone to call Dad and the only phrase I heard was "Dhora Radhona/ The Zim$ has fallen" it's been life as a Zimbabweans ever since then.
I think you missed the point Karabo. Before the sanctions, Zimbabwe was already on it's knees due to tribal politics and gugurahundi genocide. The farm invasions was an icing on the cake. It was a desperate attempt by the murderous regime to stay in power
@@KaraboMoremi it was and it's still going on. The government believes that people from matebeleland are second class citizens and must be denied study and work opportunities. That's why you find most of these people crossing the border to SA and Botswana. Mugabe and zanu are no saints
@K ZN Zimbabwe was pursuing one party state politics as early as 1981. Mugabe invested everything to achieve this including wasting resources on tribal army to kill innocent unarmed civilians in matebeleland. By 1989 Zimbabwe was heavily in debt. The IMF suggested that they reform the economy. That's when Mugabe started the Economic Adjustment Program. The results were political unpopular. He abandoned ESAP as this program was known and came up with farm invasions. The farm invasions were used as a last resort to earn sympathy from other African countries and people that are not informed like you. Corruption was high right from independence in 1980. SOE were used as conduits to steal and all of them collapsed or are operating at less than 20% capacity by 1990.
@@d12citrii45 I have no reason to do that. I lived through zanu mismanagement of the economy, corruption, stealing public resources you name it. Mugabe and including the current president are the worst leaders to ever rule Zimbabwe. They are totally clueless and stuck in revenge and tribalism.
your Lancaster house agreement explanation skipped the reasons why the government took it by force. It was the British and Americans who were to pay for the compensation and their governments refused to do so, then the government of Zimbabwe took it without compensation. Then Zimbabwe was sanctioned.. that was the beginning of trouble. I think you mainly traced the movement of the currency, but not the underlying fundamental problems that controls the value of currency.
You're right. I came at from the currency side. But I had to trace it back as much as I could. I've had a couple people suggest I look more into the Lancaster house agreement 🤝📃📜📄
@@KaraboMoremi So that we dont undermine the efforts by Mugabe to have the black Zimbabwean getting back land which by the way was taken by force by the white man without compensation and years of forced labour.. etc, and the sanctions for over 20yrs. You can do 2 or 3 separate topics addressing each at a time. You did a good job
Mugabe was given enough money by the West, but he looted it! He didn’t care about returning Land to the people, all he wanted was how to stay in power!
@@bharatsinhdesai8006 Just because your parents refused to get the land supporting opposition doesn't mean Mugabe didnt give people land. Some of us got the land fairly and orderly before hondo yeminda. If you knew why he waited 10yrs more to 2000 yet Lancaster house agreement had restricted them for 10yr you wouldn't say that. Samora and Julius Nyerere said to him if you take the land before South Africa get independence the whites in South Africa wont allow independence so wait. Do your research wide enough not just feelings against Mugabe. Also search US ambassador Andrew Young on Zimbabwe and Mugabe he will tell you that America and Britain did not pay for land reform as they promissed. Who are you then to say they paid 😂😂😂
Also, the war vets’ ZW$50 000.00 which resulted in the Black Friday of ‘97 and restitutions killed the Zim dollar. Essentially the fighter fathers ate the fruit and now their children we are starving and dying🥺
Thank you for sharing this bro. To address the last part though. The problem that happens in South Africa is that employers end up preferring Zimbabweans over South Africans because they know that they can exploit them... especially in farms bro. Zimbabweans are working for a wage that South Africans wouldn't accept as a result it creates the tension between the people.
Wow l didn't know that we always thought it was the people's fault why they are in our country lm gonna subscribe well documented l hope you got more stuff
Neljas Moosese raamat 6:Õnnistussõnad 22 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes: 23 „Räägi Aaroni ja ta poegadega ning ütle: Õnnistades Iisraeli lapsi, öelge neile nõnda: 24 Issand õnnistagu sind ja hoidku sind! 25 Issand lasku oma pale paista sinu peale ja olgu sulle armuline! 26 Issand tõstku oma pale sinu üle ja andku sulle rahu! 27 Nõnda pandagu minu nimi Iisraeli laste peale ja mina õnnistan neid!” Psalmid (Laulud)122:Palve Jeruusalemma hea käekäigu eest 1 Palveteekonna laul Taavetilt. Ma rõõmustasin, kui mulle öeldi: „Lähme Issanda kotta!” 2 Meie jalad seisid su väravais, Jeruusalemm. 3 Jeruusalemm, kes oled ehitatud nagu hästi kokkuliidetud linn, 4 kuhu läksid üles suguharud, Issanda suguharud tunnistuseks Iisraelile tänama Issanda nime. 5 Sest sinna on seatud aujärjed kohtumõistmiseks, aujärjed Taaveti kojale.6 Paluge rahu Jeruusalemmale! Käigu hästi nende käsi, kes sind armastavad! 7 Rahu olgu su müüride vahel, hea käekäik su kuninglikes kodades! 8 Oma vendade ja oma sõprade pärast tahan ma nüüd öelda: Rahu sinule! 9 Issanda, meie Jumala koja pärast tahan ma otsida sulle head. Jesaja 30:Issand tõotab oma rahvale armu anda 18 Ja ometi ootab Issand, et teile armu anda, ja jääb kõrgeks, et teie peale halastada, sest Issand on õiguse Jumal, õndsad on kõik, kes teda ootavad. Baaruk 5: Sest Jumal juhib Iisraeli rõõmuga oma auhiilguse valgusesse, halastuse ja õigusega, mis temalt tuleb.” Saalomoni Tarkuseraamat 11: Halastamise põhjus 23 Sina halastad aga kõigi peale, sest et sa suudad kõike, ja vaatad mööda inimeste pattudest, et nad meelt parandaksid. 24 Sest sina armastad kõike, mis olemas on, ega põlga midagi,mida sa oled teinud, sest sina ei olegi loonud midagi, mida sa ise vihkaksid. 25 Sest kuidas saaks midagi püsida, kui sina ei tahaks, või kuidas säiliks see, keda sina ei ole kutsunud? 26 Sina aga säästad kõiki, sellepärast et nad on sinu omad, Issand, hingede armastaja. Estri raamatu lisad 3:2 „Issand, Issand, kõigeväeline Kuningas! Sinul on meelevald kõige üle ja ei ole kedagi, kes võiks sulle vastu astuda, kui sina tahad Iisraeli päästa!kes võiks sulle vastu astuda, kui sina tahad Iisraeli päästa!kes võiks sulle vastu astuda, kui sina tahad Iisraeli päästa! Apostlite teod 15:15 Sellega sobivad kokku prohvetite sõnad, nagu on kirjutatud:
16 „Pärast seda ma pöördun tagasi ja ehitan üles Taaveti mahalangenud telgi ja ehitan üles selle varemed ja püstitan selle uuesti, 17 et muudki inimesed otsiksid Issandat ja kõik rahvad, kelle üle on hüütud minu nime. Nii ütleb Issand, kes teeb seda, 18 mis on teada igavikust alates.” Pauluse kiri galaatlastele 1:3 Armu teile ja rahu Jumalalt, meie Isalt, ja Issandalt Jeesuselt Kristuselt, 4 kes andis enese meie pattude eest, et meid välja kiskuda praegusest kurjuse ajastust Jumala ja meie Isa tahtmist mööda, 5 kellele olgu kirkus igavesest ajast igavesti! Aamen.
Bro saw ur previous videos. You have a huge potential. Just an advice. Focus on African related issues not on general topics which is highly saturated.
The Lancaster agreement broke bcoz of Zim investment in the war in DRC in 1999. The West was supposed to pay for the compansation en they felt if they do they will be giving Zim fire power and shooting themselves on the foot. Wanting Zim out of the war they refused to pay up hence Mugabe took the land without compensation. Ooh the war in DRC was mainly for regime change and Zim threw the life line for that regime (Kabila).
I am South African, and we have a lot of Zimbabwe workers. They are most definitely one of the most hardest working people ever that’s why we have gotten every last one of them residency in South Africa with housing each one for themselves and their families I have the upmost respect for any Zimbabwean person working in South Africa , or any other place
yes. I LIKE WORLD POLICY. I M FROM KYRGYZ REPUBLIC BOUNDARY THE CHINA. BUT OUR ECONOMY DEPEND ON RUSSIA GAS OIL. AND RUSSIA UNDER SANCTION EVEN MY COUNTRY HAS A LITTLE INFLEACTION. FOR EXAMPLE MILK WAS IN 2018 25 SOM TODAY 89 SOM RUSSIA NORTH KOREA ZIMBABWE SUDAN WENESUELA-THESE ARE SCUM COUNTRYES
It's our land not media propaganda. My cdes died for that land .You are speaking from business view not historical and political views.Before you gone further Mugabe went to talk to Blair and Bush about the land reform problem. He even went as far as in Isreal to talk about the land reform problem.
Well, you and your cdes didn't think about the later generations to come when you forcefully took the land back with violence. Now the youth is paying for the sins of their fathers, the youth is the future of any country but in Zimbabwe they're looked at with a great deal of disrespect and disregard. Those cdes might have died taking the land back (God rest their souls in peace), but doomed the later generations to come after you and them in the process. The hearts and intentions were in the right place, but It was not a strategic move.
As a Zimbabwean youth borned in 80s.Zimbabwe has created give me syndrome in youth.Most of our youth needs jobs not creating jobs.We want degree not skills so that we can get things easy.Our historical background does not want us to get things easier but to fight for the destination.Land reform in 2000 who of us youth were ready to farm none.We were ready to become teachers, policemen and so forth.It is now after we discovered that land is everything in a foreign country.We did not understand Mugabe vision period.We are suffering because of our ignorant
@@tinashenyamande358 Hayi arrogance has never moved Zimbabwe forward, it’s pointless to make an argument with people that are still living in the past. They think they know everything but know nothing of what’s affecting the youth today and not in the 80s. You talk about fighting but Mugabe never thought of fighting Tony Blair and G. Bush on the land reform problem through the right channels instead of through violence. Was he really that naive to think that there wasn’t going to be blowback for taking back the land the way people in Zimbabwe did? Now the land has zero collateral value and that same land goes to the black majority in Zimbabwe with no title deeds. But hey whatever makes you sleep at night🤷🏿♂️
@@tinashenyamande358 And the youth in Zimbabwe doesn’t need to fight for anything since the fathers of Zimbabwe already did the fighting. The youth needs to focus on the next step instead of getting trapped in this so called “fight for the destination” loop. Clearly the fighting didn’t do any good for the country, why would the youth make the same mistake? It’s not that hard to be progressive yazi, arrogance is clearly not working
Hi guys. Thank you for watching this video😊. I'm really proud of this one.
I just want to clarify something real quick.
This video is not a political take nor is it in anyway trying to over simplify the tragedies that occurred in Zimbabwe. Real people were and are affected every day by what happened.
I want to provide a starting point for awareness regarding Zimbabwe. Particularly for the South African who's viewing Zimbabwe through the tinted lens of SA media.
I got a lot of help from real Zimbabwean people, from uber drivers, to my former teachers and all the friends in between.
Thank you guys🙏🏾
Thank you for this video. Your explanation is crystal clear and it seems you guys speak so well. I used to think that Mugabe may have lived in the west because of his English. Zimbabwe was sabotaged by the west which will never tolerate a true African leader. They want peace in their territories but war everywhere else. The wickedness is palpable.
Unpalatable wickedness
If there's one thing I've learned... paper money is fake, we've all been bluffed by the super super super wealthy. They control us like puppets! Look what the Bible says about money and the rich.
P.S. they enslaved us all. While they brainwash us with political slavery, the "swines" captured us in capital prison, clever
us printing money stimulus package causing inflation trillion
Bravo Bravo well researched and enlightening information there.
Zambian watching in 2024. Great story telling
As a Zimbabwean who is currently living in Zimbabwe as it is now....thank you. Your understanding of the way the economy is commendable. We pray that some day our country will become better and rejoin the rest of the world in development.
us printing money stimulus package causing inflation trillion why do have faith in the usd
@@ashleysimthi4852 Dependence on another country's currency is a double edged sword i think. We need a working economic recovery plan beyond printing money and relying on foreign currency. Rejuvenation of local industry would help tremendously. But at this point, it's probably not going to happen anytime soon.
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@@therealgg5050 ofcourse
I'm Zimbabwean. You're a good storyteller. Keep getting better.
Thank you Tom. I will keep pushing.
Despite some key inaccuracies, I would like to thank you for your effort in trying to explain the Zimbabwean economic situation.
Yeah some of the key information was cut out as I wanted to simplify. But I enjoyed learning about the country man. Has me wanting to visit.😊
@@KaraboMoremi visit us my brother
Trust me I will🙏🏿
Great video brother! Well researched and articulated. Loved the ending bit.
I may add, the reason why Mugabe broke the Lancaster House agreement of compensating white farmers was because UK had itself broke the agreement first. Included in the agreement was that UK would pay money to the Zimbabwean government (reparation) to be used for development and to compensate those whose farms would be taken. When this did not happen pressure from war veterans and the surgency of a strong opposition (MDC at the time) forced and frustrated Mugabe into land grab to regain some popularity.
Thanks for the insight. There is a lot of lessons in the Zim story for other SADC countries. I think that one of the challenges we have is that political views, misinformation, indoctrination, etc. sometimes stop us from seeing, or even admitting some valuable truths. If we do not admit these truths we will continue to make these mistakes and we will continue to blame others.
Also, you end with the idee that we should not judge Zimmies working in neighborings countries harsh and try to send them back. But, should one not lei in the bed you made? Why are they not back in their own country fixing the problems. Instead, they are blaming other, not admitting their failure and now they are doing the same in other countries. They took the farms of the farmers, now they take the jobs of others. They now have the land they wanted. Should they not stay and work it? Or, if not, should they not give the farms back to the farmers who had it.
I would like to have more insight and understanding into this in a next video.
Thanks for this one.
So technically, if the president said I am going to make everybody a billionaire - he didn't joke at all.
The video was great until the 11:00 minute mark where you skipped the part between 2010 and 2015 where you could literally withdraw any USD amount you wanted from the bank/ATM without any queue. I worked in Zimbabwe during that period. It was after the GNU that government started overspending leading to the USD shortage which became symptomatic in 2016.
Ohhh man. What a beautiful piece of information. I definitely missed that in my prep. I'll read on it and include it in my next video on currencies.
Thank you for this bro 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Excellent analysis Karabo. Zimbabwe has every opportunity but it needs political will.
Indeed. Elections are coming up next year yeah?
I just visited Vic Falls from the US last week. Zimbabwe is such a beautiful country with beautiful people. I had an idea of what happened but lacked details. Thank you for explaining. I hope someday Zimbabwe can rise up and be great again.
Sending love from the USA/New Jersey ❤
Such a sad situation for Zimbabwe, I have two Zimbabweans who used to rent at my place here in Botswana but later on I stopped collecting money from them as they became part of my family, I must say most of them are good people, who hate crime, however there are those who can be hired to kill just for few bucks, I went to Bulawayo with one of them and was treated like a king, one day Zimbabwe will regain her glory, there are thousands of Zimbabweans here in Botswana from farms to mechanics and welding, some are now citizens
Karabo !! Look at you narrating Zim's History like a pro.This is genius at best .What do you think Zimbabwe should do going forward ?
Thank you Precious.
Something Definitely needs to be done with the sanctions. But I read that the government had been working to get back into the global community so hopefully that happens soon.
The discovery of oil should be a huge positive aswell😊
@@KaraboMoremi It's better to circumvent than to kowtow to the West. Zimbabwe should mark out an entirely different trading route and methodology especially now that a multipolar world is emerging. It must align itself with those who refuse to be bullied and those who reject lawless sanctions.
gadafi trick. gold
It’s not the sanctions, it’s the corruption.
@@KaraboMoremioil itself doesn't matter, if you are just going to abandon civic governance. Yea you might get Chinese or us help to extract it to meaningful revenue and the gov just turns around steals those assets, then who is going to trust you?
Good video. The most frustrating aspect of this sad story for the majority of Zimbabweans is the complicity of the ANC, particularly during the Mbeki administration with his so called silent diplomacy rubbish. The SA government, through their UN mission in the USA always protected the corrupt and murderous zanupf regime from the justified condemnation by the international community. I guess SA is happy to have a ready market for its products in Zimbabwe. By the way, there is a zanupf branch in SA , what for, you can make a guess!!!
Sa government has never signed agreement to be guardian of other governments. SA s products in Zim is your choice. Namibia almost 90 % of from SA but they didn t collapse and Botswana , Lesotho and Eswatini.
SA holds a stance to respect other State's Sovereignty
hi, how did u edit the videos and how did you create the slideshows? thankyou
How do we fix this problem?
This was very helpful in terms of clarity to many South Africans
A very informative piece on the Zimbabwe situation i must say, it takes one to look deep into the country to understand what really went wrong. Thanks for putting this out. 🇿🇼
The content?🤌🏻🔥🔥
The edits?😂😂🔥
Love that we can learn and get a good laugh at the same time💯
That's the intended outcome 😊
It hopefully makes difficult and painful concepts a bit easier to consume
Thanks for the history lesson, really enjoyed it!
I'm glad bro🤝🏽
Interesting to watch. Thank you so much for this❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'm glad you enjoyed it😊🙏🏾
Crazy how fast a country can spiral down, when you opened about those ludicrous interest rates, basically says nobody wants your currency. Idi Amin brought his country down similarly.
dankie broer for this knowledge while keeping it entertaining.
Love ur narration skills.
Thanks bro.🙏🏾
Editing skills? One would swear you've been doing this for ages🙆🏽♀️🔥🔥🔥
🥺🥺🙏🏾🙏🏾Thank you Kopano. I'm learning as I go.
Great video as always. Would be interested to know your take on what Zimbabwe should do going forward. Maybe an interesting video concept would be to take a look at some successful developing economies and analyze what is being done to help them industriliaze.
I actually had a whole section on that at the end of the video but cut it due to time. I wasn't sure y'all would want a long video😅.
But it involves removing the sanctions, improving production so they can export more and resolving the political sphere.
A lot of Zimbabwean business people are going back to Zim so things are definitely going to get better soon🔥🔥🔥
Could somebody please explain the redenomination of the currency 🤔, how exactly does it work? Does a country just say "okay now there's a new currency and its worth this much"?
Well report and documentary
So are u living in republic of SOUTH AFRICA 🇿🇦 ?
Yes I am😊🇿🇦
Yourself?
@Karabo Moremi south africa is a top country 👏
This was a super-helpful video! I learned a lot!
You make history and politics interesting 🤣🤞🏻💀🔥
🤗🤗thank you.
I felt like running away from politics.. but maybe I'll make another one..
What is the name of the movie you used for the Zimbabwe dollar part please
It's a series called Billions. The character that was speaking is Robert "Bobby" Axelrod.
Lit series 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
What can be done to change this situation?
Great video thanks for helping to inform us
A great insight doco Karabo. Wheelbarrow$ being in sort supply too.
Poor political decisions lead to this chaotic economic situation.
Uncle Robert was a leader with a spine. He is no pupet of the globalists
I don't care who says what Zimbabweans deserve their land back here in south of Limpopo we starving Black landless people...!!!
Bet you didn't know the man was crowned a British knight right after independence. He was their main man after war tasked to protecting white interests just like Mandela.
Land reform was necessary but it was enacted in ways that are purely political and not within the national interest. This could have been handled incrementally but the president needing a popularity boost before elections
Thanks for the video
You're most welcome🙏
Excellent presentation about how not to run an economy. Resentment and politics are a deadly poison pill. I'm American and with Zimbabweans the best.
I really enjoyed watching this video. So much insightful information 👏 👌 👍
wow really insightful, I enjoyed it... you definitely have my sub....
Very much appreciated 🥺🙏🏾
Loved this bro
Is it Safe to say the busiest economists on planet Earth are in Zimbabwe?
Wonderful stuff!
Very informative, happy to see the Axe clip😃
There's no one better than Axe😌😌😌
Interesting discussion...
I liked your eloquence, and almost faultless articulation of our Zimbabwean story. For a moment i thought you are a Zimbabwean who actually experienced the story you are telling. The big lesson from the Zim story is 'How not to do the right thing'. We had to take what's ours, but we were a lot messy and we stepped on some toes.
😅nah I'm a South African from Limpopo so I guess that's the closest one can get to being in Zim.
You're right, out of that situation have come a lot of lessons. Especially for other African countries
Wow... this is a beautiful UA-cam channel, glad Africans r making such informative vids on Africa
Please make vids covering all African nations n issues.
Great content n edits
It's not so called lancestor house.
African stories told by Africans. nothing fills me with more joy.
Africa will rise again
There are lots of inaccuracies. When redenomination happened in 2008, 10 zeros were removed and the rate was 1:10 with the USD and not 1700 that you mentioned. It was almost 1:1with the ZAR. That was on 1 August 2008. Also not true that the land became worthless. It’s debatable whether taking land can be done any other way in Africa. Some believe it’s impossible to redistribute it any other way
The edits😭😭😭😭
This was so informative and funny to watch at the same time. So well compiled.😂😂🙏
If we don't laugh, we'll cry. 😭😭💀💀
The state of our country is a bit depressing when you actually sit down and think about it.
Like loadshedding is literally part of our life now?! We celebrate having stage 2 instead of 6😭😭
@@KaraboMoremi read this reply as the electricity took a break *loadshedding*🤣🤣 there's nothing to do but laugh it out honestly. 🤣
I was there 2006 you have to acknowledge the parallel market nobody used a bank when I was there.
I did mention the parallel markets for currencies and goods😅🤝🏽
@@KaraboMoremi my bad I missed it I know fuel coupons and visas to go to SA were the main things plus a lot of people were staying with people they knew because of the demolitions I hope it gets better its beautiful place SA too Capetown was fun Peritoria good times.😁👍
@@chikwanhanyashanu9543 no worries 🙏🏾
Pretoria is always lit man🔥
Pretoria was lit went for wedding it was fun you know how African weddings be😅 👍.
You did nail it
I'm supporting this show. I can already speculate that you're going far. Hope it turns out to be similar to your daily show kinda
Whooaa🤯🤯
You might be on to something. I didn't even think of it like that.
Thanks for the idea bro 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🐣🌱
@@KaraboMoremi you're welcome💯. I think this content is way too underrated . If it can have a bit of reach around you'll see how crazy it'll fly , the reason why that's true is that the knowledge, proper edition and constructive content are already here, maybe you can argue with some other resources but other than that it's much proper
@@activehimelda Thanks bro. I'll keep that in mind
@@KaraboMoremi surecase
Man this is dope!
Great job man
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Acton
Thank you mate for your take. I suppose you also left out: i. The Black Friday in November 1997, when the Zimdollar crashed to the US$ following the war veterans gratuities payment plan
ii. The DRC war intervention and its effects.
However, the critical question to me is post-colonization governments' unenviable task to balance or bring resources and infrastructure to the previously marginalised groups and continue development at the same time on the same budgets. Zimbabwe's curse was over the methodology. But the irony of it all, is why is there more trouble in paradise????
Very good question "Why is there more trouble in paradise?" Like you said, perhaps it's because of the constraints that come with trying to give access to previously marginalized people and maintaining development at the same pace. Not that it's not achievable, but some methodologies don't work. And we see an example in this case.
IT ALMOST WORKED THOUGH, and one day Zimbabwe could rise again. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
On the other hand, I did read about the DRC war intervention. But I couldn't link it directly to the hyperinflation so I left it out.
Thank you. I think the DRC intervention's contribution was depleting the foreign currency reserves further. War by its nature requires huge budgets, which the government could not afford, especially that it spanned a couple of years.
To me, the Zimbabwean model is working to the extent one would want to understand it as an incubator of new farmers in generations to come. Current successful commercial farmers, mostly, have their grandpas to thank, who only started by owning the land without any farming skills of note.
I am tempted to compare the sustainabilities of the various systems for Southern African countries' citizens and argue that in so far as statal dependencies is concerned, the Zimbabwean system has brought about citizens who can depend on themselves in so far as food production is concerned! And because the Maslow low order needs are met at individual household level, somehow, to an extent, that has given them relative social politico-stability.
I remember in 1999 Mama gave me Z$1 to go and buy bread.Getting @ the tuckshop the price increased to $1.50.i went back home got $2 & came back to the tuckshop...there and then the price increased to $2.I went back home to ask if I can buy bread @$2 ...Mom approved ,I went back and boom the price increased to $2.50- I went back home Mom picks that Red old school telephone to call Dad and the only phrase I heard was "Dhora Radhona/ The Zim$ has fallen" it's been life as a Zimbabweans ever since then.
Loool your editing 😂😂top tier🤌
😂😂I'm glad you liked it
10:00 "This is because you can't print another countries currency."
North Korea: Hold my real stolen dollar printing press.
🤣🤣🤣🤣bro
Well crafted content... No political biases🙏👌👏
watch and learn south africa
I always wanted a South African tackling South African and African stories John Harris style 💓
Haha, I appreciate the compliment but I'm faaaar from Johnny Harris 😅 he's too good🔥
@@KaraboMoremi Nah you're really good dude, you're trailing Johnny Harris. Keep it up, bump it up from 15 minutes to 30 minutes.
Why can't they go to Botswana because pula has more value
Who told you that they're not there wena?
You sound stupid
You are a South Africa asset.
I have never heard this one before 🥺🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿Thank you Prosper
6 dollars a day? Please...
It's actually around $5.5, I rounded up.
It works out to about R2500 a month.
You are so intelligent. You need more subscribers.
I'm just focused on getting better with each video. Hopefully more people enjoy the content 😊
I think you missed the point Karabo. Before the sanctions, Zimbabwe was already on it's knees due to tribal politics and gugurahundi genocide. The farm invasions was an icing on the cake. It was a desperate attempt by the murderous regime to stay in power
Oh I didn't know that the genxcide was rooted on tribal politics 😳
@@KaraboMoremi it was and it's still going on. The government believes that people from matebeleland are second class citizens and must be denied study and work opportunities. That's why you find most of these people crossing the border to SA and Botswana. Mugabe and zanu are no saints
Guess, I too missed your economic interpretation /understanding mate. Or else you are inventing a new economic theory pal!
@K ZN Zimbabwe was pursuing one party state politics as early as 1981. Mugabe invested everything to achieve this including wasting resources on tribal army to kill innocent unarmed civilians in matebeleland. By 1989 Zimbabwe was heavily in debt. The IMF suggested that they reform the economy. That's when Mugabe started the Economic Adjustment Program. The results were political unpopular. He abandoned ESAP as this program was known and came up with farm invasions. The farm invasions were used as a last resort to earn sympathy from other African countries and people that are not informed like you. Corruption was high right from independence in 1980. SOE were used as conduits to steal and all of them collapsed or are operating at less than 20% capacity by 1990.
@@d12citrii45 I have no reason to do that. I lived through zanu mismanagement of the economy, corruption, stealing public resources you name it. Mugabe and including the current president are the worst leaders to ever rule Zimbabwe. They are totally clueless and stuck in revenge and tribalism.
your Lancaster house agreement explanation skipped the reasons why the government took it by force. It was the British and Americans who were to pay for the compensation and their governments refused to do so, then the government of Zimbabwe took it without compensation. Then Zimbabwe was sanctioned.. that was the beginning of trouble. I think you mainly traced the movement of the currency, but not the underlying fundamental problems that controls the value of currency.
You're right. I came at from the currency side. But I had to trace it back as much as I could.
I've had a couple people suggest I look more into the Lancaster house agreement 🤝📃📜📄
@@KaraboMoremi So that we dont undermine the efforts by Mugabe to have the black Zimbabwean getting back land which by the way was taken by force by the white man without compensation and years of forced labour.. etc, and the sanctions for over 20yrs. You can do 2 or 3 separate topics addressing each at a time. You did a good job
Mugabe was given enough money by the West, but he looted it! He didn’t care about returning Land to the people, all he wanted was how to stay in power!
@@bharatsinhdesai8006 Just because your parents refused to get the land supporting opposition doesn't mean Mugabe didnt give people land. Some of us got the land fairly and orderly before hondo yeminda. If you knew why he waited 10yrs more to 2000 yet Lancaster house agreement had restricted them for 10yr you wouldn't say that. Samora and Julius Nyerere said to him if you take the land before South Africa get independence the whites in South Africa wont allow independence so wait. Do your research wide enough not just feelings against Mugabe. Also search US ambassador Andrew Young on Zimbabwe and Mugabe he will tell you that America and Britain did not pay for land reform as they promissed. Who are you then to say they paid 😂😂😂
Thanks for your insight. A couple if people have echoed this sentiment in the comments.
I think this was needed people like flaunting that line “go back to where you came from” what does that really mean, 🙏🏽
This is interesting
I'm happy to hear this 🙏🏾🌱
Also, the war vets’ ZW$50 000.00 which resulted in the Black Friday of ‘97 and restitutions killed the Zim dollar. Essentially the fighter fathers ate the fruit and now their children we are starving and dying🥺
That's South Africa in the making...we will have to use Zim bonds...
Am a South African and saying Zimbabweans must go home is self hate. And I can see headed towards the same direction
Self hate bro💔
Thank you for sharing this bro. To address the last part though. The problem that happens in South Africa is that employers end up preferring Zimbabweans over South Africans because they know that they can exploit them... especially in farms bro. Zimbabweans are working for a wage that South Africans wouldn't accept as a result it creates the tension between the people.
UNTRUE ZIMBAWEANS GET SAME SALARY. WE CHOOSE ZIMBABWEANS BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD WOKING PROUD PEOPLE.
@@jadelyn171 STOP LYING, YOU DON'T REPRESENT EMPLOYERS ALONE IN SOUTH AFRICA...
@@jadelyn171 Foreign natinals are taken advantage f in South Africa it a known fact stop capping!
This is not true at all, they get paid the same wage with South Africans. Don't tell lies my guy
Wow l didn't know that we always thought it was the people's fault why they are in our country lm gonna subscribe well documented l hope you got more stuff
There's a lot more to and playing the game does not help the people who were affected 🥺
Thank.you.for.the.video
Ecos 244 slay everyday
Neljas Moosese raamat 6:Õnnistussõnad
22 Ja Issand rääkis Moosesega, öeldes:
23 „Räägi Aaroni ja ta poegadega ning ütle: Õnnistades Iisraeli
lapsi, öelge neile nõnda:
24 Issand õnnistagu sind ja hoidku sind!
25 Issand lasku oma pale paista sinu peale ja olgu sulle armuline!
26 Issand tõstku oma pale sinu üle ja andku sulle rahu!
27 Nõnda pandagu minu nimi Iisraeli laste peale ja mina õnnistan
neid!”
Psalmid (Laulud)122:Palve Jeruusalemma hea käekäigu eest
1 Palveteekonna laul Taavetilt.
Ma rõõmustasin, kui mulle öeldi:
„Lähme Issanda kotta!”
2 Meie jalad seisid su väravais,
Jeruusalemm.
3 Jeruusalemm, kes oled ehitatud
nagu hästi kokkuliidetud linn,
4 kuhu läksid üles suguharud,
Issanda suguharud tunnistuseks Iisraelile
tänama Issanda nime.
5 Sest sinna on seatud aujärjed kohtumõistmiseks,
aujärjed Taaveti kojale.6 Paluge rahu Jeruusalemmale!
Käigu hästi nende käsi,
kes sind armastavad!
7 Rahu olgu su müüride vahel,
hea käekäik su kuninglikes kodades!
8 Oma vendade ja oma sõprade pärast
tahan ma nüüd öelda: Rahu sinule!
9 Issanda, meie Jumala koja pärast
tahan ma otsida sulle head.
Jesaja 30:Issand tõotab oma rahvale armu anda
18 Ja ometi ootab Issand,
et teile armu anda,
ja jääb kõrgeks,
et teie peale halastada,
sest Issand on õiguse Jumal,
õndsad on kõik, kes teda ootavad.
Baaruk 5: Sest Jumal juhib Iisraeli rõõmuga
oma auhiilguse valgusesse,
halastuse ja õigusega,
mis temalt tuleb.”
Saalomoni Tarkuseraamat
11: Halastamise põhjus
23 Sina halastad aga kõigi peale,
sest et sa suudad kõike,
ja vaatad mööda inimeste pattudest,
et nad meelt parandaksid.
24 Sest sina armastad kõike, mis olemas on,
ega põlga midagi,mida sa oled teinud,
sest sina ei olegi loonud midagi,
mida sa ise vihkaksid.
25 Sest kuidas saaks midagi püsida,
kui sina ei tahaks,
või kuidas säiliks see,
keda sina ei ole kutsunud?
26 Sina aga säästad kõiki,
sellepärast et nad on sinu omad,
Issand, hingede armastaja.
Estri raamatu lisad 3:2 „Issand, Issand, kõigeväeline Kuningas! Sinul on meelevald kõige
üle ja ei ole kedagi, kes võiks sulle vastu astuda, kui sina tahad
Iisraeli päästa!kes võiks sulle vastu astuda, kui sina tahad
Iisraeli päästa!kes võiks sulle vastu astuda, kui sina tahad
Iisraeli päästa!
Apostlite teod 15:15 Sellega sobivad kokku prohvetite sõnad, nagu on
kirjutatud:
16 „Pärast seda ma pöördun tagasi
ja ehitan üles Taaveti mahalangenud telgi
ja ehitan üles selle varemed
ja püstitan selle uuesti,
17 et muudki inimesed otsiksid Issandat
ja kõik rahvad, kelle üle on hüütud minu nime.
Nii ütleb Issand, kes teeb seda,
18 mis on teada igavikust alates.”
Pauluse kiri galaatlastele 1:3 Armu teile ja rahu Jumalalt, meie Isalt, ja Issandalt Jeesuselt Kristuselt,
4 kes andis enese meie pattude eest, et meid välja kiskuda
praegusest kurjuse ajastust Jumala ja meie Isa tahtmist mööda,
5 kellele olgu kirkus igavesest ajast igavesti! Aamen.
Government of Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 should just introduce digital currency back by Gold reserve to solve the hyperinflation
A block country cannot run out of money if it was an island then that would be true. Zimbabwe is a powerful economic it just have not realise it yet.
The last few seconds hit hard
Need to be heard by those dudula campaigners
😭😭I can already hear them saying "eh baba, we don't care"!
Bro saw ur previous videos. You have a huge potential. Just an advice. Focus on African related issues not on general topics which is highly saturated.
I appreciate the advice bro. I'll make more 🙏🏾
quite an informative video just wished there no video memes on it, otherwise a great video.
Intelligence… are there any solutions to fix Zim or it’s done?
There's definitely hope.
But politics makes it exponentially difficult.
📍
Those degrees Mugabe obtained from some backstreet university were obviously not worth the paper they were printed on.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Backstreet universities?
Dude you sound stupid
For now as it's last
Tried this sanctions on Russia and it feil.
The Lancaster agreement broke bcoz of Zim investment in the war in DRC in 1999. The West was supposed to pay for the compansation en they felt if they do they will be giving Zim fire power and shooting themselves on the foot. Wanting Zim out of the war they refused to pay up hence Mugabe took the land without compensation.
Ooh the war in DRC was mainly for regime change and Zim threw the life line for that regime (Kabila).
Thanks a lot for that. I've learned so much since publishing this video it's amazing 😅🤗🙏🏾
I am South African, and we have a lot of Zimbabwe workers. They are most definitely one of the most hardest working people ever that’s why we have gotten every last one of them residency in South Africa with housing each one for themselves and their families I have the upmost respect for any Zimbabwean person working in South Africa , or any other place
yes. I LIKE WORLD POLICY. I M FROM KYRGYZ REPUBLIC BOUNDARY THE CHINA. BUT OUR ECONOMY DEPEND ON RUSSIA GAS OIL. AND RUSSIA UNDER SANCTION EVEN MY COUNTRY HAS A LITTLE INFLEACTION. FOR EXAMPLE MILK WAS IN 2018 25 SOM TODAY 89 SOM RUSSIA NORTH KOREA ZIMBABWE SUDAN WENESUELA-THESE ARE SCUM COUNTRYES
Rema fela Moremi
The agreement was that the British paid for the expropiation n they didnt
Thanks for this Charlie🙏🏿
09:24 Let that sink in 😂😂😂😂
🤣I hope you let it in.
It's our land not media propaganda. My cdes died for that land .You are speaking from business view not historical and political views.Before you gone further Mugabe went to talk to Blair and Bush about the land reform problem. He even went as far as in Isreal to talk about the land reform problem.
Taking back the land was the best thing the problem is how he distributed it giving it to clueless people
Well, you and your cdes didn't think about the later generations to come when you forcefully took the land back with violence. Now the youth is paying for the sins of their fathers, the youth is the future of any country but in Zimbabwe they're looked at with a great deal of disrespect and disregard. Those cdes might have died taking the land back (God rest their souls in peace), but doomed the later generations to come after you and them in the process. The hearts and intentions were in the right place, but It was not a strategic move.
As a Zimbabwean youth borned in 80s.Zimbabwe has created give me syndrome in youth.Most of our youth needs jobs not creating jobs.We want degree not skills so that we can get things easy.Our historical background does not want us to get things easier but to fight for the destination.Land reform in 2000 who of us youth were ready to farm none.We were ready to become teachers, policemen and so forth.It is now after we discovered that land is everything in a foreign country.We did not understand Mugabe vision period.We are suffering because of our ignorant
@@tinashenyamande358 Hayi arrogance has never moved Zimbabwe forward, it’s pointless to make an argument with people that are still living in the past. They think they know everything but know nothing of what’s affecting the youth today and not in the 80s.
You talk about fighting but Mugabe never thought of fighting Tony Blair and G. Bush on the land reform problem through the right channels instead of through violence. Was he really that naive to think that there wasn’t going to be blowback for taking back the land the way people in Zimbabwe did?
Now the land has zero collateral value and that same land goes to the black majority in Zimbabwe with no title deeds.
But hey whatever makes you sleep at night🤷🏿♂️
@@tinashenyamande358 And the youth in Zimbabwe doesn’t need to fight for anything since the fathers of Zimbabwe already did the fighting. The youth needs to focus on the next step instead of getting trapped in this so called “fight for the destination” loop. Clearly the fighting didn’t do any good for the country, why would the youth make the same mistake?
It’s not that hard to be progressive yazi, arrogance is clearly not working
They are well educated ezimbabwe that is why Zimbabwe is like this, they know too much. They are clever.